Isidore GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE (1805-1861), zoologist, & - Lot 29

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Isidore GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE (1805-1861), zoologist, & - Lot 29
Isidore GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE (1805-1861), zoologist, & Félix Edouard GUERIN-MENEVILLE (1799-1874), French entomologist. Set of 5 documents: Nice set relating to Chinese and Japanese silkworms. - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. L.S. Paris, March 5, 1855. 1 p. ½ in-8. Header of the Société zoologique d'acclimatation. St-Hilaire sends Guérin the seeds of ordinary silkworms received from China "by the care of M. de Montigny" by the Zoological Society. "You are kindly requested to give your full attention to the education of silkworms from these eggs...". - Félix-Edouard Guérin Méneville. L.A.S. S.l.n.d. 1p in-8. About the "bombyx cynthia whose eggs we tried to keep in Paris, but did not succeed [...]". Talks about silkworm breeding centers in Italy, Algiers, etc. He puts Geoffroy St-Hilaire on the list of 40 people to whom the company sends seeds from China (out of over 200 requests) and hopes that he will be willing to carry out the experiment. - Félix-Edouard Guérin Méneville. L.A.S. addressed to Viscount de Montravel. Paris, May 11, 1860. 1 p. in-4, on the second leaf of a printed letter from the Société impériale zoologique announcing the shipment of "Chinese silkworm seeds" (2 pp. in-4). Guérin Méneville is reassuring about the Japanese silkworm: "This worm doesn't eat the softest ones, and as soon as it leaves the egg, it prefers to graze on the firmer ones. I won't have any eggs until the beginning of June, and I'll send them to you as soon as possible [...]". - Félix-Edouard Guérin Méneville. Printed letter. Paris, June 3, 1860. 1 p. in-8. "I have the honor of sending you the eggs (laying from - to -) of the Japanese silkworm [...]. In response to the Emperor's desire to see this new industry develop in France, I am making you a gift of this species and ask only for a report on the results [...]". - Félix-Edouard Guérin Méneville. "Élevage du ver à soie du chêne en France et au Japon". Printed 6 pp. in-8. Offprint from the Revue de Zoologie. Untrimmed.
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